Offense
Kendal Briles is heading into his second season as OC for the Hogs. Kendal is used to having people load a uhaul right now as he travels to his next coaching stop. He said when he took the Arkansas job that he was looking for stability and so far he is in fact staying for 2021. The only place he has ever done this before, was at Baylor under his father. Even that was stopped by the scandal at Baylor.
So what do we expect from a second year of Briles? Briles and the veer and shoot are pretty easy and learnable schematically, but when you add the pace that the offense runs, it leads to a lot of miscommunications, misreads by the QB, and missed assignments and routes everywhere else. When going back and reviewing the film and really focusing on each play on offense it was glaring the amount of opportunities the Hogs missed. Opportunities where Feleipe Franks made the wrong read in the RPO that could've been a big gain or receivers running the same route with open space where they were supposed to be or linemen pull the wrong direction/ missing assignments or tight ends missing blocking assignments in the split zone that probably spring Boyd or Smith off to the races.
We got much better at execution, at a high speed as the season progressed. I counted 23 missed or busted plays against Georgia, I counted 13 against Missouri. Obviously the kids aren't perfect, signals get mixed and everything else, but in Briles time at Baylor where the system was completely installed the most mistakes I ever caught were 10 in a game and that was with a back up qb that came in mid game.
The Hogs were horrific on 3rd down. I think that will be the biggest area of improvement. We are going to make fewer mistakes in our assignments and reads because of the knowledge returning, so it will lead to more success on 1st and 2nd down. Ultimately, leading to more success on 3rd and way less 3 and outs.
Like Pittman said, we have to get bigger and stronger on the line, which we will obviously do this off season. This will allow us to be much more efficient in the the red zone and in the run game in general.
In ppg in 2019 we averaged 21.4 which ranked 110 in the nation. In 2020 in Briles first year we jumped to 25.7 which ranked 86th. That was with out the fluff of NC games on the schedule and playing SEC defenses every week. I fully expect the Hogs to improve that stat by at least 7 points in 2021 which would put us as a top 40 offense in the nation, something that hasn't been done since 2015 and before that, the Petrino days.
Bigger, stronger, more consistent, and more understanding! I think we see our first 1,000 yard receiver since Cobi hamilton with Treylon Burks. Running games should be worlds better but I don't think we have a 1,000 yard rusher on the team, most likely committee work unless some one emerges as a work horse.
Kendal Briles is heading into his second season as OC for the Hogs. Kendal is used to having people load a uhaul right now as he travels to his next coaching stop. He said when he took the Arkansas job that he was looking for stability and so far he is in fact staying for 2021. The only place he has ever done this before, was at Baylor under his father. Even that was stopped by the scandal at Baylor.
So what do we expect from a second year of Briles? Briles and the veer and shoot are pretty easy and learnable schematically, but when you add the pace that the offense runs, it leads to a lot of miscommunications, misreads by the QB, and missed assignments and routes everywhere else. When going back and reviewing the film and really focusing on each play on offense it was glaring the amount of opportunities the Hogs missed. Opportunities where Feleipe Franks made the wrong read in the RPO that could've been a big gain or receivers running the same route with open space where they were supposed to be or linemen pull the wrong direction/ missing assignments or tight ends missing blocking assignments in the split zone that probably spring Boyd or Smith off to the races.
We got much better at execution, at a high speed as the season progressed. I counted 23 missed or busted plays against Georgia, I counted 13 against Missouri. Obviously the kids aren't perfect, signals get mixed and everything else, but in Briles time at Baylor where the system was completely installed the most mistakes I ever caught were 10 in a game and that was with a back up qb that came in mid game.
The Hogs were horrific on 3rd down. I think that will be the biggest area of improvement. We are going to make fewer mistakes in our assignments and reads because of the knowledge returning, so it will lead to more success on 1st and 2nd down. Ultimately, leading to more success on 3rd and way less 3 and outs.
Like Pittman said, we have to get bigger and stronger on the line, which we will obviously do this off season. This will allow us to be much more efficient in the the red zone and in the run game in general.
In ppg in 2019 we averaged 21.4 which ranked 110 in the nation. In 2020 in Briles first year we jumped to 25.7 which ranked 86th. That was with out the fluff of NC games on the schedule and playing SEC defenses every week. I fully expect the Hogs to improve that stat by at least 7 points in 2021 which would put us as a top 40 offense in the nation, something that hasn't been done since 2015 and before that, the Petrino days.
Bigger, stronger, more consistent, and more understanding! I think we see our first 1,000 yard receiver since Cobi hamilton with Treylon Burks. Running games should be worlds better but I don't think we have a 1,000 yard rusher on the team, most likely committee work unless some one emerges as a work horse.
